Hello all, Here is a simple botany question. I’m wondering about the development of multiple seeds from a single flower. I’m curious to know if seeds from a single flower are genetically identical. Does one grain of pollen fertilize the flower and the embryo divides like twins/triplets, or does the flower actually take in a number of pollen grains, one for each seed? I may not have expressed this as clearly as it could have been done, but hopefully someone will understand what I’m getting at :) Michael
Generally, they derive from multiple ovules and multiple pollen grains - so genetically different, like ordinary twins (but not necessarily even sharing the same pollen parent), not like identical twins.
